About Think+DO Tank Foundation

Since 2013, Think+DO Tank Foundation (TDTF) has been working within local communities in low-income parts of South Western and Western Sydney, co-creating artistic projects and social enterprises in which creativity and collaboration are a driving force. We work with local women to drive whole-of-community change.

At Think+DO Tank Foundation we start from a position of strength. Statistically, our community collaborators are amongst the lowest socio-economic and most marginalised people in Australia today. They are also the holders of an enormous wealth of lived experience, professional and cultural knowledge, languages, faiths and cultures that enrich and inform every project we co-create.

We create our programs together because they change lives for the better -  and for the long term. We enable our community collaborators to be the authors of their own tomorrows.

What makes us different?

Think+DO Tank Foundation generates local solutions to big challenges by plugging into the strength of local communities with the offer of the Foundation's skills in building lasting and transformative arts, technology and social change initiatives.

We are expert experimenters, and we work alongside community members in everything we do. Your contribution fuels the engine for imaginative, joyful, community-led change.

We are currently raising funds for some of our key projects including:

Seed of Hope
The Seed of Hope is a free community wellbeing and arts program that promotes creativity and connection for recently-arrived refugee and migrant women. Read more here.

Welcome Books
Remember the first time you got to choose a book of your own? How exciting that was? Think+DO Tank Foundation makes this experience happen for newly arrived and refugee families from our multilingual book collection curated as part of our social enterprise, the LOST IN BOOKS multilingual bookshop . 

The Writers' Room
The Writers’ Room is about cultural democracy (who gets to read, write and share stories) and cultural innovation (how these stories are told). Read more here.

TO YOUR DOOR Community Art Festivals
To Your Door is our program of regular arts outreach featuring local performers, food and community togetherness. We take our fleet of mobile stages, our caravan and van to bring a party, celebrating the local community. Read more here.

Forked Tongues Storytelling Collective
Help us to train the next cohort of multilingual storytellers. We train and support unemployed bilingual community members to improve their artistry, develop a repertoire to share their language and culture through multilingual storytelling. Read more here.

Homework Club
At our Community House, students of all primary and secondary levels and their parents get regular help with homework in English or their own language. And this year, they can access DJ workshops; become part of a multilingual metal band; and learn new digital skills while exploring nature. Read more here.

About your donation 
When the positive impact is big there is no such thing as a small donation - every contribution counts for a lot - including yours! All amounts of $2 and over are tax deductible, and you can even set up a regular monthly donation.

Here are examples of how your donation is applied:

$50 lets a local refugee/migrant family choose books from LOST IN BOOKS' beautiful multilingual book collection through Welcome Books. This contributes to learning English and strengthens literacy in the language(s) people speak at home.

$100 helps meet the costs of training and certification for local women to access paid work, for instance, a Working With Children Check for paid employment; a Food Safe Supervision Certificate and the like. 

$250 funds a place for a child in our Homework Club for a term. The Club is centred on principles of creative education and helps students of all ages with school work; to connect with their new community and adjust to a new way of life; and to engage in creative experimentation.

$500 pays for a Forked Tongues Multilingual Storyteller to participate in a masterclass series offered by our skilled artists. Storytellers continue to develop and strengthen a growing repertoire of stories, folk tales and autobiographical vignettes to share with child, youth and adult audiences.

$1,000 pays for the artist fees at a community performance event featuring local musicians and artists in our TO YOUR DOOR touring program or our Forked Tongues Multilingual Storytellers.

$5,000 supports a psychologist or an artist in residence to work for a term with The Seed of Hope participants.

Thank you for your kindness and generosity. We're so glad you have chosen to be part of this incredible journey of sustainable strength and possibility!

To learn more about the work of the Think+DO Tank Foundation, please visit us here. 

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